react-native command gives syntaxerror

Question

Currently using react-native-cli: 1.0.0 and react-native: 0.26.3

Running react-native command in terminal gives this error.

/Users/appleuser/Desktop/asklegit-app/node_modules/babel-core/lib/transformation/file/options/option-manager.js:229 throw err; ^ SyntaxError: /Users/appleuser/package.json: Error while parsing JSON - Unexpected end of input at Object.parse (native) at OptionManager.addConfig (/Users/appleuser/Desktop/asklegit-app/node_modules/babel-core/lib/transformation/file/options/option-manager.js:225:62) at OptionManager.findConfigs (/Users/appleuser/Desktop/asklegit-app/node_modules/babel-core/lib/transformation/file/options/option-manager.js:442:30) at OptionManager.init (/Users/appleuser/Desktop/asklegit-app/node_modules/babel-core/lib/transformation/file/options/option-manager.js:484:12) at compile (/Users/appleuser/Desktop/asklegit-app/node_modules/babel-register/lib/node.js:112:69) at loader (/Users/appleuser/Desktop/asklegit-app/node_modules/babel-register/lib/node.js:158:14) at Object.require.extensions.(anonymous function) [as .js] (/Users/appleuser/Desktop/asklegit-app/node_modules/babel-register/lib/node.js:168:7) at Module.load (module.js:357:32) at Function.Module._load (module.js:314:12) at Module.require (module.js:367:17)

Anyone got a clue? Couldn't find anything online :(

This is my package.json

{
  "name": "asklegit",
  "version": "0.0.1",
  "private": true,
  "scripts": {
    "start": "node node_modules/react-native/local-cli/cli.js start",
    "ios": "react-native run-ios",
    "android": "react-native run-android"
  },
  "dependencies": {
    "react": "15.0.2",
    "react-native": "0.26.3"
  }
}

Answer 1

I don't know under which circumstances but it seems sometimes there is an empty package.json created in the users home directory. A completely empty file is by default not correct syntax so calling applications will produce an error.

Solution is to just delete the empty package.json.